re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

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However, to be fair, not as embarrassing as all forms of communication from our last president.

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Boom

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Per a call I'm on with a security org that deals mostly with governmental agencies

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another duplicate

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Biden gave "super high end" weapons to Ukaine?


and he didn't replace it! Luckily Trump replaced all that in his first term, before Biden was in office to give it away, if I read what he wrote correctly...

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Jesus, it never ends...

Boys, Biden and the US military gave the Ukrainians a military version of a Salvation Army donation. Outside of the Patriot missile systems, which were given because needed to know if they worked against modern Russian airframes, we gave them things going back before the Vietnam era.

If anyone - anybody - can show anything showing a state or the art system being donated to the Ukraine under anybody over the last four years, I'd laugh. If so, it's probably being donated as an experiment as well.

Hey, you did some research!!! Way to go!

Now, outside of two exceptions and both of which can be explained by seeing if they work against Russian air frames and defenses, which of these weapons was 'state of the art?' (Of course, you failed to mention the M113 or Zuni missles, which date back to Vietnam and before.)

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If anyone - anybody - can show anything showing a state or the art system being donated to the Ukraine under anybody over the last four years

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Starlink--Elon Musk--He donated it's use anyway.

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Then somebody needs to tell Poland that, 'cause they say they're paying for it:

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They were not at the beginning...I thought everyone knew that.

But yes someone is paying for it now. Elon "gave" it to them at a time when it was very much needed.

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Hey, you did some research!!! Way to go!

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Maybe you should try it sometime

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, outside of two exceptions and both of which can be explained by seeing if they work against Russian air frames and defenses

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"Besides these exceptions I'm excluding for reasons I made up...."

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Of course, you failed to mention the M113 or Zuni missles, which date back to Vietnam and before.)

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Because I was listing things that went into production after that era

I wonder if there would be a market for these outside of Ukraine...?

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Just out of curiosity, let’s roughly estimate the cost of intercepting 1,500 Shahed type drones using interceptor drones.

For this example, we’ll take the currently most widespread interceptor drone in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces - the STING, developed by Wild Hornets @wilendhornets .

Its price varies depending on configuration (mainly the camera), ranging from $1,170 to $2,000, according to publicly available information.

Let’s calculate using the upper price range, $2,000 per unit, the direct cost of intercepting 1,500 drones would be:$2,000 × 1,500 = $3,000,000.

The manufacturer states that the drone’s effectiveness is around 90%, depending on crew training, experience, weather conditions etc. If we factor in a 90% success rate (meaning additional launches to achieve 1,500 successful interceptions), the total would roughly increase by about $300,000, bringing the estimate to around $3.3 million in direct costs.

For comparison, a single PAC-3 interceptor missile for Patriot can cost approximately $4 million.

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Light damage but there is nowhere for these ships to go to escape further drone attacks. At this point they're just sitting ducks.

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